Patrick wrote:
I have not seen any posts on this topic for a week or so.
I've been on vacation.
I would like to help but I am terribly slow to get things done.
I think that is pretty common. But anything you do does help. So don't worry about it and just do as much as you desire.
I am just wondering if we could hammer out what needs to be done so I can add it to my "to-do list" volume 3
I could buy a cutter in July or August and I should be able to finish reverse engineering the command protocol sometime in the fall.
This is really what needs to happen. Not that you need to buy one, but these cutters need to get into the hands of technical people who are open source minded and want to help. Right now there doesn't seem to be much cross over between the cutter communities and the OSS community.
I know there are different formats used to send information to the cutters, would it be good to work on a more robust DXF export option too? I don't know the first thing out GSD, does does someone want to work on this ?
We've made some simple improvements to DXF recently and more can be made I'm sure. We just need to be more specific with what the problems are so that we can find solutions. Thanks to everyone who has worked on it lately.
I started looking into GSD perhaps a year or more ago. I was able to figure out some things, but my lack of need and infancy as a programmer have hindered me. I'm not a GSD user and I have no need for it but I would be happy to help anybody with interest learn more about the format. I've published my code at:
http://code.google.com/p/cuft/
Aaron Spike